Indy, you seem to have a terribly optimistic view of people. People's desires aren't always focused on that something more, but mostly on how to get through the next day, satisfy their desires, and to get their comeuppance, or how to reinforce their jaded cynicism about the world. Perhaps you have a point in your kind of prelapsarian view of people, and whether one should revert to it in order to make metaphysical judgments. Or maybe you should just take your head out of the clouds and deal with life.
The biggest issue with a good god and free choice, as you put it, is the issue of prescience. I articulated in the first post on free will, but perhaps I need to expand it. God's pre-existent knowledge of a person's actions, whether they chose good or bad, say, in the killing of a child, implicates him in that killing, especially if he has the power to change that situation.
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